Irish Film Institute -BEST OF IRISH 2025: SANATORIUM

WHAT'S ON - 20/08/2025

  • AMADEUS 4K

    A lavish, fictionalised account of the bitter rivalry between composers Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) and upstart prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) in 18th-century Vienna. The film unfolds as a dramatic confession where the aging Salieri, once a respected... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SOMETIME SUMMERTIME (PROGRAMME TWO)

    Join us daily for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

    PROGRAMME TWO

    O’HARA’S HOLIDAY

    Stressed-out New York cop O’Hara travels... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  • BARRY LYNDON (50TH ANNIVERSARY)

    Stanley Kubrick’s lavish period drama based on William Thackeray’s novel sees the rise and fall of a likeable 18th century Irish scoundrel, Barry Lyndon. In 1973-74, Kubrick spent nine months in Ireland shooting the film (in Kilkenny, Waterford, Carlow and... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.20

  • CENTRAL STATION 4K

    (CENTRAL DO BRASIL)

    Brazilian director Walter Salles, whose latest film, I’m Still Here, was a huge hit at the IFI earlier this year, made his international breakthrough with Central Station, which also marked his first collaboration with the great Fernanda Montenegro. For... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.20

  • FROM THE VAULTS: THE “WONDERFULLY INTERESTING, EXCITING, AND DANGEROUS WORLD” OF HAROLD JOHNSON

    Harold Johnson (1910-1967) was a skilled amateur filmmaker, a Quaker, and a businessman. His family recently deposited his collection of over 150 films (30 hours) for preservation in the IFI Irish Film Archive. Shot on 8mm and 16mm film,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • OSLO STORIES: LOVE

    (Kjærlighet)

    FROM FRIDAY, AUGUST15th

    Marianne (Andrea Braien Hovig), a pragmatic, unattached Oslo doctor specialising in urology, is taking a ferry to a nearby island where she has been set up on a blind date... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.45

  • THE KINGDOM

    (Le Royaume)

    Julien Colonna’s debut feature masterfully blends a coming-of-age tale with the gripping dynamics of a mafia drama. Set in 1995 against the starkly beautiful Corsican coastline, we are introduced to fifteen-year-old Lesia (Ghjuvanna Benedetti) as she enjoys a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.15

  • THE LIFE OF CHUCK

    Like Frank Darabont before him, Mike Flanagan has often found inspiration in the work of Stephen King, including Doctor Sleep (2019), sequel to The ShiningThe Life Of Chuck, People’s Choice Award winner at TIFF 2024, comes from the more humanist end of King’s... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.10

  • TOGETHER

    A couple whose relationship has stagnated encounter a supernatural force that brings them closer than they ever thought possible in writer-director Michael Shanks’s inventively squirm-inducing comedy-horror which gives new meaning to the term ‘clingy’. Swapping city life for rural isolation,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10 (OC), 20.50

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